The Power of Faith By Woods Ishmael
Major James Nicholas Rowe U S Army reflects on five years in a Vietnam POW camp. He describes faith as a personal relationship with God strengthened by deprivation, meditation, and nature. He recounts escape prayer, nearly being shot, and gratitude for life and family, with lessons from the U Minh forest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Nicholas Rowe
U.S
Vietnam
Rowe
God
Buddha
Allah
Jim
U Minh Forest
South Vietnam
Fund Raising Sacred For Some Churches
A columnist decries pervasive church fund raising and its encroachment on faith. Books by Robert Herbold and J Elliott Corbett critique fundraising as an obsession, urging churches to focus on being the church rather than building programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apy David Polinewspaper Enterprise Assn
Tras Poling
Christian Herald Assn
PTA
Weybright and Talley
Robert Herbold
J. Elliott Corbett
Jeremiah
Main Street
John Knox Press
Christ
Armour net earnings rise in fiscal 1969
Armour and Co reports net earnings of 18.093 million dollars or 2.43 a share for the year ended Nov 1. Operating earnings before taxes hit a record 49.778 million, up from 47.653 million previously. Sales totaled 2.1534 billion, vs 2.0964 billion last year. An extraordinary charge of 7.403 million was taken in 1969 as fertilizer assets were phased out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Armour and Co
Charles R. Orem
Expanded Service For Blind In La Crosse County
A Lincoln firm expands free Braille publications and talking magazines to La Crosse County blind residents. Representative Harvey Burtnett notes annual house calls, broad materials for parents and disabled readers, and no charges to recipients. Donations fund the program, with local business support sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse County
Lincoln, Nebr
Harvey Burtnett
Fall River
Wis
la Crosse
Christian Record Braille Foundation, Inc
Bartnett
Burtnett
Colorful Filly Billys for Women for Fashion and Protection
In New York women can buy 2 foot long Filly Billys for 9 dollars as fashionable self defense items. They are lighter and slimmer than police nightsticks and come in metallic gold silver white red lilac or yellow with a gold chain to wear. Designer Marilyn Baltar, 29, says the idea came after spotting a baseball bat during a trip upstate.
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NEW York
Marilyn Baltar
Billy
Miss Baltar
Shelly Fireman
Shelly
Gift Bazaar At LCU To Start Monday
An international gift bazaar sponsored by the Unit ed Campus Ministry at La Crosse State University runs Monday through Thursday Dec 18. Hours are noon to 9 p.m. at 126 N 17th St. Profits aid Bolivian orphan Juan Diego Sejas.
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United Campus Ministry
la Crosse State University
Gary B. Putnam
N. 17Th St
Mexico
Ecuador
Haiti
Guatemala
Yucatan
Mission Village
Interfaith
Juan Diego Sejas
Juan
UCM
Bolivia
Christian Children’s Fund
La Crosse Fire Chief Seeks Higher Rating Hope
La Crosse fire chief Frank E. Kloss told South Side Lions Club members that work is underway to raise the city department from a Number 4 rating to a Number 3. A higher rating would boost protection and lower fire insurance costs for homes and industry. He outlined long range plans to extend coverage to new residential, industrial, and university sites as guests from an insurance management training group listened.
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Frank E. Kloss
la Crosse
Paper Company Cuts Newsprint Price Hike
New York AP report says Great Northern Paper Co cut its planned $5 a ton newsprint price hike to $4, making the new price $151 per ton. The prior price ranged $147 or $148 by customer location, with Southern Paper Mills already moving to $151. Bowater Sales Co followed, shifting its increase to $151 in 16 states and holding $152 elsewhere.
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New York
Great Northern Paper Co
Southern Paper Mills, Inc
Lufkin
Texas
Bowater Sales Co
U.S
Southland
Local Church Services in La Crosse Area
A listing of numerous area churches with pastors, service times, and programs including Adventist, Assembly of God, Baha is Faith, First Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, and many others. Services span Sunday mornings, evenings, and midweek meetings across La Crosse Onalaska and Crescent with nursery care, youth groups, Bible studies, and prayer meetings noted.
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Assembly OF God
Iéth
Ferry
R. Francis Jones
Southside
110Th and
Adams
Bil W.hughes
Temple
N. Salem Rd
Loomis St. Charles
Richard F. Cagle
Wkty North American Bible
7Th and Ferry
Leon Franck
ST. John the Baptist
Avon St
Bernard Quint
Robert Altmann
Minn
Michael J. Kuisle
Joseph Hoehn
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Holy Trinity
13Th and
Park Ave
Mar. V. J. Plecity
Robert Wagner
Steven Gross
ST. James
Caledonia St
Robert Hansen
Paul Servais
ST. Patrick’s—Onalaska
John Rossiter
Donald Krauke
First Church OF Christ Scien
West Ave
King
Campbell Road
Eugene W. Anderson
Bethany
North St
Onalaska Ave
Gale C. McElwain
Otto L. Larson
ALC Bethel Livingston and
Loomis
Richard Gilmore
Olivet
Bainbridge
James Steinbrecher
Jour Redeemer
Weston
Norman A. Nelson
OUR Savior’s Lutheran
Roland L. Schwandt
William R. Schumann
WKBH
Trinity—Charles and Sill
Ernest N. Nelson
St, Paul's
Arthur M. Ferce
Dean A. Fodness
Onalaska
Paul A. Roe
Terry Sietto
Lutheran
Norman Erikson
Prince OF Peace Lutheran Church
Hill and Main
la Crescent
Minnesota
Duane Baardseth
LCA English
1Éth
Cass
Stefan T. Guttormsson
Elmer B. Sterner
Good Shepherd
Birch
J L. Mattes
Missouri Synod Faith Lutheran Church
14Th and Main
Andrew Frinke
Wisconsin Synod Se
First Evangelical
Cameron
Fritz H. Miller
Grace Evangelical
Ward Ave
S. 24Th
G. F. Albrecht
ST. Paul
R. A. Sievert
Mount Calvary
Lloyd Lambert
John Parcher
Wesley
Edwin P. Sheppard
Paul Brown
ST. Luke’s
Caledonia
Douglas G. Fraley
Frank C. Goodlake
David D. Wright
North United
N. Salem _Rd
Leonard Beenken
First Congregational
Melvin L. Frank
ST. John's Reformed
Market
Calvin Hay
Trinity United Church OF Christ —R
Disagreement Over Martyrs Sainthood Divides Churches in England
London AP reports a clash between Catholic and Anglican leaders over canonizing the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Cardinal Heenan urges sainthood, while Archbishop Ramsey warns it could harm ecumenism and notes a siege mentality among Roman Catholics.
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London
Church of England
John Cardinal Heenan
Michael Ramsey
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
James I
Rome
Henry Cardinal Mannin
England
Mayfair
Pope
Ramsey
Servicemen Get Courtesy Flights From Chicago
Military personnel returning from Vietnam may fly free on Commuter Airlines from Chicago to Sheboygan Wisconsin Elkhart Indiana Springfield Illinois or Detroit on unsold space aboard 15 passenger liners. Flights operate from O Hare to Sheboygan and Elkhart and from Meigs Field to the other points.
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Chicago
Vietnam
Sheboygan
Wis
Elkhart
Ind
Springfield
Ill
Detroit
O’hare International
Meigs Field
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Ishmael
AP News
Armour
Wedgewood Orchard
Kroger’s
Highway
Christian Herald
Holliday
Merket St
LCU
Paper Company
Adventist
B. G. Mohr
Mrs
Carl M. Lewis
R. J. Onalaska
Floyd R. Harbord
Regular Baptist General Association
Grace—Gillette and Loomis
David Fields
Island Park
Lakeshore
Lynn R. Matthews
ST. Joseph's Cathedral
Mesar
John Paul
Patrick Kelley
James J. Falconer
Losey Bird
Anthony P. Wagener
Michael McKenna
Lawrence B. Berger
ST. Thomas More
E. J. Thome
John Schultz
William Grevatch
ST. Wenceslaus
Winnebago
J. Floyd Dowyer
Peter Butz
Dennis Rader
Newman Center
1732
George Hinger
Christian Science
Evangelical Free
Church of Christ
St. Perry Hall
Cass Stanley Chitwood
Charles Street
Charles and Logan
Burdett Wakeman
Evangel
WLCX
Harris C. Mooney
Jehovah's Witnesses
George St
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter-Day Saints
George
Ichurch OF Jesus Christ OF Latter-Day Saints
Liverty Thomas
Holker
Church OF the Lutheran Confession
ST. Mark’s Evangelical
Main
Arthur E. Schulz
United Methodist
Asbury
19Th
Redfield
Wayne L. Grover
4Th Ave
Roger D. Gustafson
Nazarene
First Church OF the Nazarene Avon and Logan
D. J. McGuvra
Men's Prayer Fellowship
Young People’s Society
Salvation Army
Janet Endres
Suzanne Roberts
Sons OF Abraham Temple
1820
Elliott Katz
United Church of Christ
Unitarian Fellowship
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship OF
United Pentecostal Church
Apostolic Tabernacle
Liberty and Sill
Arthur Mansur
Pentecost Church of God
Full Gospel Tabernacle
Copeland Ave
E. Bowman
Asbury United Methodist Church
Redfield Sts
Southern
California
Visitation
Otto L. Larsen
Bethany Evangelical Free Church
Alaska Ave
LA Crosse, Wis
Billy Graham
Cliff Barrows
4000 Voice Crusade
George Beverly Shea
Tedd Smith
Wkbt-Tv
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